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  2. Face-to-face (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The face-to-face relation (French: rapport de face à face) is a concept in the French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas' thought on human sociality. It means that, ethically, people are responsible to one-another in the face-to-face encounter. Specifically, Lévinas says that the human face "orders and ordains" us.

  3. Totality and Infinity - Wikipedia

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    Levinas places heavy emphasis on the physical presence involved in meeting the other. He argues that only a face-to-face encounter allows true connection with Infinity, because of the incessance of this type of interaction. Written words and other words do not suffice because they have become past by the time the subject perceives them.

  4. Meontology - Wikipedia

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    For Emmanuel Levinas, meontology was whatever had meaning beyond ontology, the ethical primary demand of the other in a face-to-face encounter. According to Levinas, meontology refers not to another being but to an inability to be that leads to a transcendent realm "other than being". [2] However, Levinas suggested that meontology, as the ...

  5. The saying and the said - Wikipedia

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    Language as saying is an ethical openness to the other; as that which is said – reduced to a fixed identity or synchronized presence – it is an ontological closure of the other.' [1] The complication Levinas introduces into his analysis of the face-to-face gives his ethics a further reach toward the kind of universalist ethics of a humanism:

  6. Face to Face - Wikipedia

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    Face-to-face (philosophy), a philosophical concept described by Emmanuel Lévinas based on the idea that people are responsible to one another in their face-to-face encounters Face-to-face interaction , a concept in sociology, linguistics and communication studies involving social interaction carried out without any mediating technology

  7. Reciprocity (social and political philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    There are similar limitations in discussions of the do-unto-others golden rule, or ethical principles that are modeled on the mutuality and mutual benevolence that come out of the face-to-face relations envisaged by Emmanuel Levinas or the I-Thou relationships described by Martin Buber. Like gratitude, these other ideas have things in common ...

  8. DeceiveD WisDom

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    8 the world based on hearsay or old wives’ tales or whatever you want to call them. Instead why not embrace a science-based approach: read on as we weigh up the evidence and come to a

  9. Emmanuel Levinas - Wikipedia

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    Emmanuel Levinas [3] [4] (born Emanuelis Levinas; / ˈ l ɛ v ɪ n æ s /; French: [ɛmanɥɛl levinas]; [5] 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ...